Jewish communities are still being maintained in Shanghai, Harbin and Tientsin, as well as in Peking, according to a report received here today from the Jewish community of Shanghai.
The communication, addressed to the world executive of the Agudas Israel Organization, disclosed that the Chinese Government had allotted flour for the baking of matzot. In 1960, 2,830 graves were transferred under rabbinical supervision from the former Jewish cemetery within the city limits to a new cemetery outside Shanghai, the report said.
The community provided 538 death certificates and certificates of internment to applicants in many parts of the world and it maintains complete files of the records of the nearly 20,000 Jews who found sanctuary in Shanghai at the time of the Nazi persecutions in Europe.
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